Wayve
Machine Learning Engineer, Application Software
Detroit, Michigan · Full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$8,003 more — $128,003 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $128,003 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.
- Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.
- Here's what this particular role covers.
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve end-to-end driving models, advancing their performance, robustness and generalisation.
- Lead technical initiatives in personalised and collaborative driving, including behaviour conditioning, comfort tuning and alignment with user preferences.
- Build evaluation pipelines and metrics to assess open-loop and closed-loop driving performance and product readiness.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate models, accelerate iteration and support real-world deployment.
- Mentor senior engineers, drive technical alignment and influence architecture, training and deployment decisions.
- You have a strong foundation in software engineering practices and experience building reliable, maintainable ML systems.
- You can lead technical initiatives across teams, build alignment and mentor engineers.
- Deep-dive technical interviews System Design, ML (1 hour)
Compensation
- $120k-$145k
Benefits
- Curate and mine real-world and synthetic data to improve scenario diversity, coverage and feature-specific development.
- You have an extensive, proven track record of shipping deep learning systems to production.
- You bring deep expertise in deep learning, particularly sequential models, control, planning or perception.
- Experience in autonomous driving, imitation learning or trajectory prediction.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
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